“ Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ” – Paulo Freire, Educator

Justice for Hernan Jaramillo

“I can’t breathe…they’re killing me.” That’s what 51-year-old Hernan Jaramillo said over and over while police kneeled on his back, ignored his pleas for help, and watched him die.

It was all caught on video. But it took more than two years for the video to come out – only when an inside source finally leaked it to the media. If it were up to the police and Oakland authorities, we might never have known what happened. Now, they won’t say whether there was an internal investigation into Jaramillo’s death, or whether any of the officers involved were disciplined.2 In fact, they’re refusing to answer any questions about his death at all.

You can demand that the officers who killed Hernan Jaramillo be fired and prosecuted, that all police killings are automatically investigated, and that evidence like the video of Jaramillo’s death gets released immediately.

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